Iran’s formal notification Monday to a United Nations nuclear watchdog that it will begin producing higher-grade enriched uranium marks a new and potentially dangerous turn in Tehran’s confrontation with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
Iran couched its announcement in terms of a pressing need for fuel at a 41-year-old, U.S.-built research reactor that produces medical isotopes for an estimated 850,000 kidney, heart and cancer patients. But in reality it means that Iran will be a significant step closer to possessing the raw material needed to build a nuclear bomb.
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Defiant Iran Accelerates Nuclear Program – Time Magazine
Iran begins enriching higher-grade uranium, says state TV — The Guardian
Iran Starts Higher Uranium Enrichment — Voice of America
Iran Plans to Build 10 More Nuclear Plants — Los Angeles Times
Iran faces new sanctions within weeks over uranium programme — The Telegraph
U.S. Wants Sanctions In Weeks as Iran Ups Enrichment — New York Times/Reuters
Iranian Atomic Plans Bring New Calls for Sanctions — Voice of America
Iran Faces New Sanctions — Daily Telegraph
Iranians Prepare for Risky Clashes — Wall Street Journal
Iran Nuclear Plans Start New Calls for Sanctions — New York Times
New Iran sanctions move likely ‘within weeks’: Gates — AFP
Gates Hopes Iran Sanctions Will Avoid Military Action — Voice of America
Steady, plausible response to Iran is needed — but we’ve seen neither — Bronwen Maddox, Times Online
Iran’s Two-Edged Bomb — Adam B. Lowther, New York Times
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